welcome to the washington area nissan dealers sports xtra. >> hello. thanks for joining coming up the cardinals and saints kick off the nfl season, plus it's gano versus rackers at redskins camp, but first to the hottest team in town. you could likely count the time stephen strasburg has struggled on 1 hand. today once again he proved his dominance bouncing back from his worst outing of the season last tuesday. today the nats and marlins, top of the 2nd no score, donovan solano with the sinking line drive to right center, too bad bryce harper out there for defense. he makes the tough catch. bottom of the 2nd, two on for stephen strasburg, opposite

field single to right. jayson werth scores followed by danny espinosa. the nats lead 2-0. four batters later bases loaded two out for adam laroche who also delivers in the clutch with a base hit to center. that brings home strasburg and steve lombardozzi. laroche has 71 r.b.i.s. 4-0. strasburg allowed six earned runs in his last outing. today the strasburg and we know and love, six innings, three hits, six strikeouts. nats win 4-1 and afterwards the skipper on strasburg, the pitcher and .343 hitter. >> with any pitcher, especially a young pitcher, it's the early innings and he got through the first two or three innings and then he was comfortable with what he was going to do. i don't know if it was drilling to some extent.

when we shut him down, can we keep his bat, use him as a pinch hitter? highly unlikely. >> moor good news for the nats. last year's closer drew storen activated july 19th after undergoing elbow surgery entered today in the 9th. storen earns his first save since september 28th of last year. his stuff was better than ever. it was a feeling long overdue. >> i just felt good. it's something i've kind of been working on. i had time in the rehab process to work on. it i wanted to make sure i added it to my arsenal when i came back. no doubt you can't face better hitters than the guys i saw this inning. it's good to be back. this afternoon bark at the park at tropicana football rays hosting the orioles in the season finale. best dressed goes to this dog sporting joe maddon's black framed glasses. bottom 8th, check out the bare hand grab and throw for the out

by robert andino, the defensive play of the game. top of the 10th still scoreless. come on, somebody score. taylor teagarden full count rips one into the gap in left center. mark reynolds scores from first. the os shut out the rays 1 -0. baltimore has won 11 extra innings game. it is game week for the redskins. they practiced monday and tuesday, off wednesday -- they have practice 1 and tuesday, off wednesday before preseason game no. 1 thursday in buffalo. the only opportunity for fans to see the team is monday tomorrow at 3 p.m. luckily many fans were out yesterday for fan appreciation day. 24,654 fans braved the steamy weather to attend redskins park. the new face of the franchise has fans thinking all positive thoughts. the team held a two hour practice. all the players signed autographs and took pictures, but griffin was the highest in demand, the crowd chanting his name throughout the day. he signed in various locations

throughout the field more than 30 minutes. afterwards the head coach was asked if he had ever witnessed anything as crazy as that. >> those quarterbacks of year, they're the hot commodity. people know that they're the difference in winning or lose for a franchise and you can get one of the top quarterbacks in the league, that person will get a lot of attention. you can see how many people waited till after practice. some people out here three, four hours and they're still in line getting autographs. so it's great to see. once again kicker graham gano is facing stiff competition. the three year veteran converted 31 of 41 field goals last year and that's his competition neil rackers brought in to challenge gano. the 13 year veteran has made 80% of his field goals. he kicked the last two years with the texans. both guys are friends and respect each other. how is the friendly competition going? we start with graham gano and his mini me. >> it's good. i think i'm fishing to make

everybody better. when i heard the news, i'm looking forward to the competition. i thought it was going to help me. it makes everybody better. it's going to come down to the game. i know as long as i prepare and do what i can do in the game, it's going to work out well. >> graham is a good kicker. he's a great guy, a professional and we're both out there to do our job and see who they like. >> i feel like we've been hitting the ball well. we kind of got in a groove with graham and nick during mini camp. we're working to get back there. we took five weeks off and we come back. so i feel like we're getting there. coming up are you ready for some football? saints and cardinals kick off the preseason in the hall of fame game. stay with us.  i got the chance to start my own business.

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>> preseason football kicked off tonight with the hall of fame game featuring the saints and cardinals and you better believe the redskins players and brass were watching. the redskins open up their regular season in new orleans against the saints on september 90. drew brees happily signed before camp started. he played the first series in march, the saints downfield for a touchdown, play of the game 2nd quarter saints rookie defensive back leron scott takes the kickoff deep in his end zone. two tacklers at the 20, breaks to the outside. at the 45 he stops, cuts it back to avoid two more cardinals, a 67-yard return. that set up the saints' second score in the 4th. saints win 17-10. final round of the bridgestone invitational, tiger woods 4-under on the front 9. now on 11 bidding for another birdie. it looks good but stops next to the cup, tiger with a 4-under 66 finishes 4-under tied for eighth place. bradley four shots behind leader jim furyk on 10.

he gets the right to left birdie to fall. deficit cut to three shots. move to 18. bradley trails by only a shot, putting for par shows no nerve, gets it to drop. bradley at 13-under puts the pressure on furyk. furyk has led the first 71 holes. on the final hole he need the bogey to force a playoff. not even close. he knew it. he double bogeys. bradley wins the bridge stone invitational by a stroke over furyk and steve stricker. time for another break, but congress up the comedian himself jarvis jenkins -- coming up the median himself jarvis jenkins on the hot seat. stay right there. we're coming back. this is the plan for back to school.

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when you watch a football game, you see the action, the score, stat, players running around in their uniforms. what you don't get is an up close and personal look at who these sunday stars. here's defensive end jarvis jenkins on redskins rapid fire. first car? >> crown victoria, 1995. >> reporter: what was your high school superlative? >> you have to elaborate on that more. >> reporter: what were you voted, most hand some, most likely to succeed? >> a comedian. a man walks into a bar. couch. >> reporter: am i supposed to

get this? i'm a blonde. >> a man walked into a bar. ouch. >> reporter: oh. i got it. i'm sad that i didn't get it quicker, but very blonde hair, so forgive me. what was your first job? >> my first job, i worked landscaping. >> reporter: are you superstitious? >> i don't like to go outside when it rains. >> reporter: what about practice? >> got to do that. it's my job. >> reporter: something you can't live without? >> playstation 3. >> reporter: if you were on a deserted island, what's the one food or drink you would bring with you? >> drink ginger ale, food peanut butter and jelly. >> peanut butter jelly time. peanut butter jelly time. there you go there you go. >> reporter: if you could only sing or dance for the rest of your life, what would you choose to do? >> probably sing. i'm not going to sing. >> reporter: i won't make you do. that your joke already tripped me up enough. last but not least, who on this team is most likely to become

president? >> become president? oh, chris cooley. >> reporter: would you vote for him? >> most definitely. >> tomorrow backup quarterback kurt cousins is put to the test. you'll be excited to find out what his big purchase is going to be. it's not what you're expecting. congrats to alexander goldapoloff on winning the city open. that's all for tonight's show. thanks for letting us be part of your weekend. day of ross has you covered at skins park -- dave ross has you covered at skins park on the within and i'm live at 5:00. good -- weekend and live at 5:00. good night. >> thank you for watching sports xtra brought to you by your washington in a nissan dealers. any -- washington area nissan dealers.